Protect patient data where it actually lives.
Most health-app exposure is on the device: data written in clear, weak keychain use, secrets in the binary, leaky SDKs. Mobexa tests the build your patients install, proves where protected data is at risk, and maps every finding to HIPAA, GDPR and KVKK - running inside your perimeter if your data requires it.
Where protected health data leaks
The breaches that trigger notification duties almost always start on the device, in the parts only a binary-level test can see.
On-device storage
Records, identifiers and tokens written without proper keychain, keystore or data-protection classes.
Data in transit
Cleartext calls, broken TLS pinning and trust gaps between the app, your backend and any connected device.
Third-party SDKs
Analytics and tracking libraries that quietly touch sensitive data, inventoried and risk-checked against known CVEs.
Evidence a privacy assessment accepts
Health programmes answer to regulators, hospital security teams and patients. Mobexa produces signed, traceable evidence mapping each finding to the HIPAA safeguard or data-protection duty behind it - and can run entirely inside your environment so nothing sensitive moves to test it.
- HIPAA, GDPR, KVKK, ISO 27001 mappings on every finding.
- Self-hosted or private deployment for special-category data.
- Continuous testing as the app and its SDKs change.
- Companion-app coverage for connected medical devices.
One picture across every app
Patient app, clinician app, device companion - findings land in one deduplicated backlog with severity, ownership and SLA timers, so a multi-app health programme reads as a single, reportable risk picture across Android and iOS.
The recurring gaps in patient-facing mobile apps
Health apps concentrate special-category data under HIPAA, GDPR and KVKK. The findings that matter are about where that data rests and who else the binary talks to.
PHI written to unprotected storage
Appointment, prescription and result data cached in clear on the device, readable on any rooted phone.
Trackers alongside patient flows
Advertising and analytics SDKs receiving screen names and identifiers from flows that carry health context.
Backend object references exposed
Record and appointment IDs that are sequential and unauthenticated at the API, discoverable from the client.
Weak transport on auxiliary services
Pinned main API but cleartext or unpinned calls to file, image and notification services carrying the same data.
Healthcare mobile security, answered plainly
Why do healthcare apps need mobile-specific testing?
Health apps carry some of the most sensitive data there is - diagnoses, identifiers, location - and store much of it on the patient device. The exposure that leads to a breach is local: plaintext storage, weak keychain or keystore use, secrets in the binary and risky SDKs. That is binary and device material a web or infrastructure test never reaches.
Can the evidence support HIPAA and health-data regulation?
Findings map to OWASP MASVS and roll up to HIPAA Security Rule safeguards, GDPR, KVKK special-category-data duties and ISO 27001. Each finding is traceable to the control it satisfies, which is the technical proof a privacy and security assessment expects.
We process special-category data. Can we keep it in our own environment?
Yes. Mobexa can run as an isolated private instance or fully self-hosted, so build artifacts, scans and evidence never leave your perimeter while you still run the full analysis engine - the model regulated health data usually requires.
Do you cover companion apps for connected medical devices?
Yes. The companion app is often the soft edge of a device ecosystem. Mobexa tests how it stores data, talks to the device and backend, handles pairing secrets and enforces transport security, and maps the findings to the same standards as the rest of your estate.
Bring one health app; leave with the evidence.
We will test a build, map findings to the safeguards you answer to, and show the deployment that keeps patient data inside your perimeter.